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Have you ever needed a new phone, but when you switched, you lost all of your photos, notes, and contacts? If you’ve been there or want to Back Up to iCloud, If you use iCloud Drive or pay for an iCloud+ plan, you can back up important information, documents, and pictures wirelessly to the internet, where they can be easily accessed and downloaded from any device.
iCloud is an online cloud-based service that lets Apple users store their photos, videos, documents, and apps, among other things, in a digital locker. Reed says that the data could be saved on Apple’s servers or on third-party servers like Google Cloud Storage or Amazon Web Services, depending on the type of information. At its core, Apple’s iCloud saves and protects your most important digital files. What does iCloud really mean? It’s a service that lets you store files, back them up, and restore them. Visit their official website for more information.
How to Back Up to iCloud On Mac
- Open Photos.
- Click on Photos > Preferences in the menu.
- Click on the iCloud tab.
- Tick (check) the box beside iCloud Photos if it’s not already selected.
- Select Optimise Mac Storage.
How to back up your iPhone to Mac or PC
If you prefer to keep your data outside of the cloud, you can save it all to your computer. It’ll all get stored into a single file that you can move and store however you like.
- Open iTunes or Finder on your computer, and then plug in your iPhone with its charging cable. On your iPhone, it’ll ask you if you want to trust the computer — select Trust and enter your passcode.
- In iTunes or Finder, select your iPhone. It’ll appear as a tiny iPhone icon in the top-left in iTunes, and you’ll see its name in the left sidebar in Finder.
- Under Backups, choose to back up your data to the computer, then click Back Up Now.
FAQs
iCloud backups include nearly all data and settings stored on your device. iCloud backups don’t include: Data that’s already stored in iCloud, like Contacts, Calendars, Notes, iCloud Photos, iMessages, Voice Memos, text (SMS) and multimedia (MMS) messages, and Health data.
Once you have backed up your old iPhone into iCloud, turn on your new iPhone. Proceed in the setup process and connect the new iPhone to Wi-Fi. In the “Apps & Data” -view, select “Restore from iCloud Backup” and sign in to iCloud. Choose the backup you want to restore and wait for the backup to finish.
On your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch: Go to Settings > [your name] > iCloud. Tap Manage Account Storage, then tap Backups. Tap a backup to see more details about it, choose which information to back up, or delete the backup.
When you delete a photo or video from the Photos app on your iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, or Mac, it also deletes from your iCloud Photos and any other devices where you’re signed in to iCloud Photos. It also no longer counts towards your iCloud storage.